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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
ng of the next day, as John Adams sat ruminating in his humble mansion at Quincy, on the interruption of his career as a lawyer, a message came, that Boston, at the instance of a committee of which Samuel Adams was the chief, had joined him with Gridley and Otis, to sustain their memorial to the Governor and Council for opening the courts; and he resolved to exert the utmost of his abilities in the chap. XX.} 1765. Dec. cause. It fell to him, on the evening of the twentieth, to begin the arge are not represented, had no legal authority to impose it; and, therefore, it ought to be waived by the judges as against natural equity and the constitution. Otis reasoned with great learning and zeal on the duties and obligations of judges. Gridley dwelt on the inconveniences that would ensue on the interruption of justice. Many of the arguments, said Bernard, in reply, are very good ones to be used before the judges, but there is no precedent for the interference of the governor and co